Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Queen Tried to Use State Poverty Fund to Heat Buckingham Palace
September 24th, 2010Via: Independent: The Queen asked ministers for a poverty handout to help heat her palaces but was rebuffed because they feared it would be a public relations disaster, documents disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act reveal. Royal aides were told that the £60m worth of energy-saving grants were aimed at families on low incomes […]
Gulf Oil Stories
September 22nd, 2010Here are a few stories near the top of Florida Oil Spill Law right now. They just go on, and on and on: “Entire food web at risk” say researchers just back from Gulf: OIL “may be HIDDEN in LARGE MARINE MAMMALS” — “Discolored” zooplankton found Gulf Biologist: “Stunned” if oil product isn’t washing up […]
Inside Norway’s Underground Military HQ
September 22nd, 2010Everything old is new again. Click through for video. Via: BBC: In November, Norway will officially move its military command base to its former Cold War complex in Bodo inside the Arctic Circle. As Russia is strengthening its armed presence on the other side of their shared border, there is no better illustration of the […]
Vatican Bank Investigated Over Money-Laundering
September 21st, 2010Via: BBC: The head of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, is under investigation as part of a money-laundering inquiry, police sources say. Prosecutors also seized 23m euros ($30m; £19m) from the bank’s accounts with another smaller institution. The inquiry was launched after two suspicious transactions were reported to tax police in Rome. The Vatican […]
Pentti Linkola, Finnish Environmentalist: “Kill Defectives”
September 21st, 2010Via: penttilinkola.com “We will have to…learn from the history of revolutionary movements — the national socialists, the Finnish Stalinists, from the many stages of the Russian revolution, from the methods of the Red Brigades — and forget our narcissistic selves.” — “Our only hope lies in strong central government and uncompromizing control of the individual […]
Saudi King Meets Top U.S., Canadian Counter-Terror Officials
September 20th, 2010Via: AFP: Saudi King Abdullah and security czar Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz have held talks with top intelligence and counter-terror officials from the United States and Canada, the SPA news agency reported. John Brennan, assistant to US President Barack Obama for homeland security and counter-terrorism, discussed in Jeddah on Sunday “issues that concern the […]
FDA Rules Won’t Require Labeling of Genetically Modified Salmon
September 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post: As the Food and Drug Administration considers whether to approve genetically modified salmon, one thing seems certain: Shoppers staring at fillets in the seafood department will find it tough to pick out the conventional fish from the one created with genes from another species. Despite a growing public demand for more information […]
Antibacterial Soaps Contain Endocrine-Disruptors Capable of Interfering with Hormones Critical for Normal Development and Reproduction
September 18th, 2010Via: Natural Resources Defense Council: The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today against the Food and Drug Administration for failing to issue a final rule regulating the chemicals triclosan and triclocarban, which are commonly found in antibacterial soaps. These chemicals are suspected endocrine disruptors linked to reproductive and developmental harm in laboratory studies. […]
DARPA Develops Helmet of Obedience
September 18th, 2010See also: The Tripods: Humans are controlled from the age of 14 by implants called “caps”, which suppress curiosity and creativity and leave the recipient placid and docile, incapable of dissent. The caps cause them to adore the tripods as their saviours. Via: Technofascism Blog: Reminiscent of the “Collar of Obedience” from Star Trek, this […]
Timeline of Shame: Decades of DeCoster Egg Factory Violations
September 17th, 2010Via: The Atlantic: Salmonella, mounds of excrement, and hefty citations are nothing new to Jack DeCoster, whose Iowa henhouses were blamed for last month’s nationwide egg recall. DeCoster has done business in Turner, Maine, his hometown, for over 60 years—and has incurred a decades-long list of violations there. DeCoster’s history of legal cases in Maine […]
